[Leaplist] free ebooks

[Jesse Rhoads]

It looks like the bash guide was done in docbook.  If the author took 
the time, they could get it into PDF, there are plenty of ways to do so.
But, not being a fan of docbook myself, I could see where he might not 
want to deal with the conversion process. :)
So what I'm saying is, while I'm sure he thought that a PDF would be 
useful, he probably just got caught in a nasty docbook toolchain 
quagmire, and gave up. 
Been there, done that.  And trust me, no amount of bash-wizardry will 
make docbook play nice when all the xml conversion platforms have gone awry.
On another note, If anyone has found a way to make docbook "do the right 
thing" despite DTD/XML/Stylesheet differences, by all means, please share.

Best Regards,
-Jesse


Jim Hartley wrote:
> Took a quick look at some of these. Some of them are in PDF format, 
> which of course is easy to either look at on-line or download for 
> later reading.
>
> Unfortunately, one I thought I might actually like to get, the BASH 
> guide, was done in HTML, and is a whole @#$%^& lot of separate pages - 
> a real pain to save for later use. This is NOT the kind of thing I 
> would want to have to go on-line every time I wanted to look at it. I 
> may take the trouble to figure out how to download it (other than the 
> terribly tedious way), but I wish people who are going to make these 
> things available would think about how users are going to want to read 
> them.


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